Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5561 Films to Buy & Rent
Chances Are (1989)
- Dir. Emile Ardolino
Feat. Robert Downey, Cybill Shepherd, Ryan O'Neal…
- 80s rom–com with a fantasy twist, starring Robert Downey Jr as a young district attorney who dies in 1964, only to be reincarnated in 1987. He…
Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
- Dir. Michael Winner
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales…
- A light and slight drama set around widower Jeremy Iron’s move to a seaside town and involvement with a local theatre group. Superb cast livens the…
Clarke and Dawe (The Full Catastrophe) (1989-2009)
- Feat. John Clarke, Bryan Dawe
- Comprehensive compilation of mock interviews from Aussie comic Bryan Dawe and true–blue Kiwi John Clarke (aka Fred Dagg), whose collective…
Cold Feet (1989)
- Dir. Robert Dornhelm
Feat. Keith Carradine, Sally Kirkland, Tom Waits…
- A deranged assassin and a strange couple concoct a scheme to smuggle emeralds over the Mexican border. Bawdy, off–kilter Southern romp features…
Cousins (1989)
- Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young…
- Superior remake of COUSIN COUSINE with Danson and Rossellini pretending to be lovers to avenge their unfaithful partners.
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Martin Landau, Anjelica Huston, Mia Farrow…
- Premium Woody Allen combines the best of his comedic and dramatic worlds. Martin Landau, Anjelica Huston, Mia Farrow and Woody himself do justice to…
Cutting Class (1989)
- Dir. Rospo Pallenberg
Feat. Brad Pitt, Donovan Leitch, Jill Schoelen…
- Late–80s, high–school set slasher that (semi–)parodies the genre is best known for featuring a young Brad Pitt. While mediocre as a…
Darling Buds of May, The (TV Series) (1989-1991)
- Feat. Catherine Zeta-Jones, David Jason, Pam Ferris…
- Top–rating TV comedy based on the H. E. Bates books, set in a not–so–innocent rural England.
The complete three series, plus two…
Dead Funny (Penn and Teller Get Killed) (1989)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. David Patrick Kelly, Jon Cryer, Reg E. Cathey…
- Black comedy and magic duo Penn and Teller deploy an array of morbid stage show theatrics within the framework of a fictional feature.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1989)
- Dir. Frank Oz
Feat. Steve Martin, Michael Caine
- Small–time peddler Steve Martin and aristocratic con–man Michael Caine compete to swindle $50,000 from the next woman they meet. Wild and…